The Bad First Job's Lingering Impact

[McFurd]

Inside Higher Ed - 5/23/2018 - Doug Lederman - The image of the recent college graduate working as a Starbucks barista or a rental car clerk has become a cliché in the national debate over student loan debt. Studies of the underlying validity of the stereotype over time have offered mixed results, with various methodologies counting anywhere from single digit percentages to 45 percent of recent graduates as "underemployed." But most have found that some people will always be what economists call "underemployed," and that the proportion of Americans in that position stays relatively constant over time. Read more @ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/201 ... often-stay